Alexey Serebryakov drinks vodka, fragment from the film. Alexey Panin: “I would leave Russia like Serebryakov

There are much fewer Armenians on earth,
Than the films where Dzhigarkhanyan played.
V. Gaft.

Miser walks in shoals, as they say. And then some kind of disgusting suit came out. Scumbag. Treacherous. Either Ulitskaya, or else.....
Fortunately, Serebryakov is younger than Dzhigarkhanyan, and the Russian people will be older. But there is still a threat with the number of films.
And so, having made pennies out of anything (and, first of all, I’ll note on our patriotic feelings), this actor chose not to bend his soul any more. He felt sad and hopeless, you see, in gloomy totalitarian Russia.
Again, I would like to remember Gaft, albeit slightly paraphrasing: “If there were no irony in fate, no one would, Serebryakov, remember you.”
- Russia gave him everything. Education, fame. Like all other guardians of the rights and aspirations of the oppressed Russian people, by the way. After which, as it turned out, it was sweet to shit on her, this Russia!
Alexander Rogers gave several rather revealing quotes from Alexander Serebryakov. Yes, that same “penal battalion soldier”, that very icon of screen patriotism and open-minded Russian soul. - In the understanding of the audience.
- In fact, for four years now this little soul has been huddling in the refuge of fugitive Ukrainians from a hundred years ago. - In Canada, where the following is broadcast from... Here they are, the revelations of a tired fugitive. Who, in the “new traditions”, did not fail to pile on the money on the suckers for his cloudless escape:
“They often say in Russia that smiles in Western countries are artificial. But for me, artificial smiles are better than sincere anger. We have an absolutely slave mentality! And democracy is responsibility. At best, the people delegate someone to power. Like, we chose you - you are responsible for everything, solve our problems!
I'm tired of what's happening in Russia. You could say he ran away and couldn’t stand it. Life is short, and I can’t and don’t want to wait any longer for people to wise up. I don’t know how long I have left, but I want my children to learn: the world is big, and you can live differently.”
Yes, it's short. What can you do…. Therefore, even after fifty dollars, you should snatch from her something that is not vomited, and devour something that has not been eaten before..... And, of course, such a harsh argument - ffso - for the sake of the children. The poor fellow literally puts himself on the altar. And all, mind you, for the sake of the children.....
“I want my children to grow up and be brought up in a fundamentally different, at least everyday ideology. I want them to understand that knowledge and hard work can be valued, that it is not necessary to push elbows, be rude, be aggressive and be afraid of people. The street ideology of a civilized country is benevolence and tolerance, something that is so lacking in Russia. Unfortunately, here, no matter how much I protect and isolate them, you cannot protect them from rudeness and aggression. It's in the air. Ham has won."
Of course of course. Especially in terms of everyday and street ideology. What is this, by the way? For unicellular organisms? If so, then it’s understandable - There are complete boors around, I can no longer exist among them with such a subtle mental organization. And I won’t let the children. Do you understand…..
Yes, Serebryakov will not suffer the sad fate of Kramarov. In Russia, which is boorish and suffocating for him, there will always be those who will film another “leviathan” with his participation. And the fees will clearly not be Soviet-style. Which will allow you to carelessly exist and crap in the future. This is what it is, the gloomy, boorish totalitarian Russian world - you don’t have to really care about the fact that in the Wild West no one knows you and you don’t care about anyone. Brothers in mind from the sinister Mordor, oppressed by the regime, will always be given bread. And, not only on the bread, but also on top of the bread so that it lies in a thick layer.
The question is different.
Beliefs are a personal matter for everyone. Therefore, I will not anathematize another actor - a defector and wish all the Egyptian executions on his head. Let him exist in a comfortable existence.
But what unites him with his brothers and sisters in the shop and in mind is one and the same thing - just as he filled his purses and earned popularity, the squeamish lordly grumbling immediately appears. And, precisely in relation to those who provided him with all this with their own money and attention. Got to riches after all.....
But, in fact, the inside remained servile as it was. After all, this is the only way to interpret the completely stereotyped actions of this entire public: when you get drunk to your heart’s content, then you can shit from the heart. - Primitive physiology, nothing more.

On January 11, Andrei Zvyagintsev’s new film “Leviathan” won the Golden Globe for best foreign language film. Zvyagintsev received his first prize “For Best Screenplay” in May last year at the 67th Cannes International Film Festival. And on January 15, it became known that “Leviathan” was nominated for an Oscar.

The film is being widely released in more than 50 countries, but few people have seen it in Russia yet. However, only the lazy did not throw mud - in the best traditions of the old Soviet joke: “I haven’t read Pasternak, but I condemn him.” This is all due to the abundance of swear words and vodka in the film. Zvyagintsev again showed Russia not in the most favorable light: here people lie, betray, and at the same time cross themselves, drink vodka like mineral water, curse dirty, and there is no light or hope. Pitchless hopelessness... Our correspondent managed to ask Andrey several questions.

– I heard that Russian viewers will see “Leviathan” in an abridged form. Is it possible to remove swearing from the film?

– What should I answer?! The man has a tongue, but he was told: “Don’t say that again!” From July 1, 2014 this is prohibited! For me, this is strange. We had no intention of shocking the audience and making a picture with profanity. We just plunged into the environment in which the story was developing, and it became clear that it was difficult to do without swearing - it characterizes the characters clearly and accurately. We didn’t generously shower it in all directions, saying, “enjoy it,” no, we selected every phrase, thought about every word. I believe that the film is not guilty of this. Everything is appropriate and organic. We wrote on the poster: “Caution, profanity” and marked it “18+.” In my opinion, this is enough.

– You didn’t let the actors leave you for more than two months. Were you afraid of something?

– The fact is that I once got badly burned with Kostya Lavronenko. I will never forget this story from the filming of the film “The Return”. Kostya played the father, was constantly with the children, when suddenly he urgently needed to leave for one day to perform some kind of performance. Perhaps it was my paranoia, but when he returned a day later, we went out to shoot a scene in a restaurant and could not film it, something was going wrong. This was a different Kostya Lavronenko. The episode never made it into the film. The performers of the main roles in “Leviathan” Lyosha Serebryakov and Lena Lyadova lived with us constantly, all 67 days, in a set house on the shore of the White Sea, even when they did not have filming days. It really helped the atmosphere. I am very grateful to the guys. Although it was not easy for them: there, in a small village, there is not even a decent catering service, there is absolutely nothing to occupy themselves with.

– So your main leisure activity is drinking alcohol?

– Why is everyone so outraged that people in the frame drink vodka?! This also hurt the Minister of Culture. In France, for example, it is customary to drink red wine for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Yes, there are several scenes in the film where the characters drink heavily. I admit, in all the scenes with alcohol, drunken feasts, all the actors are well drunk. We compared the first and ninth takes of the scene by Anya Ukolova and Lyosha Serebryakov - heaven and earth. The same line sounds completely different. You can play a drunk very well, you can imitate plastic movements and speech, but it’s impossible to play a look. Only Roman Madyanov succeeded in this. I also offered him a drink, but he refused. All the scenes where he's drunk, he's sober as a glass. And his gaze is precise. It's incredible how he does it! Of course, I wouldn't want Russia to be associated in the West with a lot of vodka. But how else could one have escaped from the emptiness that befell the hero Alexei Serebryakov?

Alexey Serebryakov - about Alexey Balabanov, for whose memory he came to Yekaterinburg.

Ekaterina Degai: Alexey Balabanov has made 14 feature films. I understand that this is difficult, but can you highlight one that is particularly valuable to you?

A.S.: I have two favorite paintings of his - “About Freaks and People” and “Cargo 200”. I think these are two great paintings. One is the depth of insight into the nature of human perversion, human pain, hatred and love. The second - “Cargo 200” - largely explains who we are, where we come from and why we are like this.

E.D.: Most people would answer the question I asked you: “Brother.”

A.S.: I think that “Brother” is simply a commercial success of Lyosha Balabanov. He needed to earn money to film the script that he had been writing for several years - “About Freaks and People.” He was looking for a topic that would be of maximum interest to the audience, and in some conversation in which I was present, the idea of the main character arose. It was clear that the film needed to be about a bandit - about a good bandit, without a doubt. Lyosha did this with the same talent as all his films, and “Brother” was very right on time. But I don’t think that this picture is his, how to say... direct statement.

E.D.: Wouldn’t he be back on time now?

A.S.: I think so.

E.D.: I know that you must have a so-called “Balaban mark” somewhere. Was it obtained on the set of the film “Dead Man's Bluff”?

A.S.: Yes. I had two days of filming, and... yeah, my eye almost got knocked out.

E.D.: In this regard, you have an interesting statement about Balabanov. You said that he is a very complex character; “The darkness eats away at him from the inside, and the people who are nearby also fall into this field.” Can you decipher this mystical component a little?

A.S.: Despite the fact that in the 90s we were friends and communicated quite closely, drank with great pleasure, sang about the Maidan - everything as it should be - I cannot say that I know him well as a person. I know him as a director because I watched his films. I believe that a person who managed to accumulate so much pain in himself - and, moreover, was able to comprehend it artistically and had such courage in which he could look into the most hidden corners of human nature, the ills of society - of course, could not be uniquely simple and light. This turns a person into a very complex and ambiguous person.

I remember our wonderful conversation. This was, in my opinion, the second youth film festival, and Seryozha Selyanov invited me to make films and gave me a book to use. The book was about Satanists. This topic scared me very much, and I went to Lesha for advice. My question, in fact, was whether such a glimpse into this area of human nature would come back to haunt me and my family. I’m not a strong believer, but, in any case, I understand that the world is not material, and you don’t always know how certain actions will come back to haunt you. To which Lyosha Balabanov, with absolute sailor-vest courage, said: “So you should look there.” Because he did it all the time. This was his calling - human, author, director - and maybe that’s why he left so early.

E.D.: You once said about “Cargo 200” that you will definitely show it to your children when they are 16. Are you still ready to take this step? And how relevant is this picture still? And at the time of its release, 20 years had already passed since 1984, and now - all 30.

A.S.: Turn on the TV buttons, and you will understand that “Cargo 200” is just a sweet fairy tale compared to the information that this... cute box gives us.

E.D.: You once said that there is Balabanov’s Russia, and there is Govorukhin’s Russia, for example, and these are completely different views on the country, and you would like to show your children the whole spectrum. That the country is still different.

A.S.: The country is different. As for children, I don’t know to what extent they can be educated... rather, the opposite process occurs. But I see my job as swinging the pendulum of their perception as much as possible, and they chose those segments to which their own soul reacts. Therefore, without a doubt, I will try to show them different views on Russia, on the people, on what is happening, on what they came from, on what they should be grateful to, and on what they should hate about themselves .

E.D.: Is there any other director about whom you can say that he is most “yours” in spirit? Maybe Zvyagintsev?

A.S.: There are many such people, thank God. I have no shortage of communication with people who are interesting to me to a much greater extent than I am to myself. Without a doubt, this is Valera Todorovsky, Andrei Sergeevich Smirnov, Andrei Sergeevich Konchalovsky, Andrei Zvyagintsev, and Yura Bykov - the list goes on. There are, thank God, people who take life seriously, who try to somehow accumulate it within themselves and offer viewers, readers, and listeners their vision of the processes taking place.

E.D.: When you were filming “Leviathan,” did you have a feeling that this picture would become so loud?

A.S.: The level of volume was unknown to me, but I perfectly understood that the patience, perseverance, courage, perseverance with which Andrei Zvyagintsev makes his picture should inevitably be noted in the audience.

E.D.: You starred in the film “Clinch,” which was released in the fall of 2015, and I know that you don’t think it’s similar to “The Geographer Drank the Globe Away.” But such a comparison exists simply because its main character is also a teacher who is in a “clinch” with reality and reality, he feels bad and uncomfortable. Why, after all, do you not agree that parallels can be drawn between the characters? And immediately the second question: you often play characters with a tragic consciousness. Is this easier, closer, more understandable for you?

A.S.: I play the characters that are offered to me, and in this sense I don’t have much variety. I try to work with people from whom I can get something. Seryozha Puskepalis is, without a doubt, one of this breed of people. During Clinch I didn't always understand what we were doing and only appreciated it after watching it. “The Geographer Drank His Globe Away” is, without a doubt, also a talented picture, although, in my opinion, not as talented as the source novel. The only parallel is that the heroes are teachers, but, you know, in Soviet times we made a lot of films about teachers. Now we mainly film about investigators, bandits, oligarchs, but somehow we forgot about teachers. They generally forgot that there are two most important professions on Earth - a teacher and a doctor. Unfortunately, we somehow lost sight of this.

The painting “Clinch” is dear to me because Seryozha tried to look at the psychological type of a person who, on the one hand, is sufficiently educated and communicates in a complex literary language, on the other hand, exists in the absolutely everyday space of a certain city, a certain Russian territory, with people who offered to him for life. Wife, child and fantasy.

E.D.: He also drinks a lot.

E.D.: Character. Why do characters like this drink?

A.S.: My characters, in principle, can be described as “heavy drinkers.” The degree of their drunkenness is different, after all, with Zvyagintsev I drank completely differently than with Puskepalis, and with him - not at all like with Rogozhkin. On the other hand, I drank at Rogozhkin’s house differently than at Andrei Sergeevich Smirnov’s. In general, I always drink differently, and it affects me differently. Although I understand that there is nothing good in this.

E.D.: Why are all the heroes like this? Why is this happening?

A.S.: My face is probably like that.

E.D.: (Laughs) Well, I’m not even talking about that; why such heroes are very often found in our cinema. This is a trait that characterizes us. Is this so?

A.S.: Yes. We are a rural country, we came from there. But in the village, work is seasonal: a person works a lot, then rests a lot, then works a lot again. That's how it happened.

E.D.: And this doesn’t change?

A.S.: Now, in my opinion, it is changing. In any case, now, if we talk about cinema, people have begun to drink much less. Sometimes they don’t even drink at all. But we are in the Yeltsin Center, and I must admit to you that people who don’t drink make me feel mistrustful.

Alexey Serebryakov: “I drank vodka for 2.5 months. This is a challenge. And my wife, who persuaded me to star in this film, already regretted that she insisted so much.”

On January 11, Andrei Zvyagintsev’s new film “Leviathan” won the Golden Globe as best film in a foreign language. Zvyagintsev received his first prize “For Best Screenplay” in May last year at the 67th Cannes International Film Festival. And on January 15, it became known that “Leviathan” was nominated for an Oscar.

– I heard that Russian viewers will see “Leviathan” in an abridged form. Is it possible to remove swearing from the film?

– You didn’t let the actors leave you for more than two months. Were you afraid of something?

On the set of Leviathan, Elena Lyadova and Vladimir Vdovichenkov began an affair. Photo Kinopoisk.ru

Andrey Zvyagintsev: “Why is everyone so outraged that people in the frame drink vodka”
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– So your main leisure activity is drinking alcohol?

Roman Madyanov was the only one of the actors who was sober (he didn’t drink a drop) Photo Kinopoisk.ru

“Not drying out for 2.5 months is a test!”

Alexey Serebryakov, actor:

“I drank vodka for 2.5 months. This is a challenge. And my wife, who persuaded me to star in this film, already regretted that she insisted so much. I knew that Zvyagintsev was a difficult person, for whom cinema was more important than life. I'm not that much of a fan of the film process, but I'm very glad that I became a part of this film."

“We are drunks in the trash heap”

Tatyana Trubilina, head of the village of Teriberka (Murmansk region):

“I am against showing the film on big screens. From an aesthetic point of view. Our village is shown here - we are all drunks living in our own garbage dump. I don’t really know who should watch this film.”

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The main character of the film, auto repair shop owner Nikolai (Alexey Serebryakov), lives with his wife Lilya (Elena Lyadova) in a small northern town. When the mayor of the city tries to demolish his house and confiscate all his property, Nikolai asks for help from his longtime friend, Moscow lawyer Dmitry Seleznev (Vladimir Vdovichenkov), who, having arrived in the city, is faced with the arbitrariness of officials and representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Migulina Katerina

After the explosion of the Nevsky Express in 2009, all trains traveling on the Moscow-St. Petersburg line were detoured through Pskov. These terrible and tragic days, in spite of everything, gave rise to a funny meme - such is our Russian character. Some glamorous kitty, looking out the window at the unsightly Pskov landscapes through which her train had been dragging to the capital for ten hours, squealed terribly into her mobile phone: “Mom, we are in hell! Mother! There are some cowsheds here! We are in hell! Unfortunately, some blogger was sitting next to the kitty, and he posted this scene on the Internet.

And the brutal actor Serebryakov, it seems to me, who turned out to be the same glamorous pussy, only in pants, dumped everything himself, in an interview with Yuri Dudu. He said a lot of offensive and Russophobic things there, but this passage is the most striking:

“If you drive 30, 50, 70 kilometers from Moscow, you will see many elements from the 1990s. Until now, neither knowledge, nor intelligence, nor enterprise, nor dignity are a national idea. The national idea is strength, arrogance and rudeness.”

It seemed to me that actor Serebryakov, living permanently in the US protectorate of Canada, confused the personal qualities of Americans with Russian qualities. Somehow he projected them crookedly, this happens when you have to live through many other people’s essences. Because Serebryakov’s new compatriots, before demonstrating their entrepreneurial spirit, simply genocided several million Indians and Eskimos - so as not to interfere, and drove the rest into reservations. Isn't the history of the United States a standard example of strength, arrogance and rudeness? But what do the Russians have to do with it? The Russians, settling in new lands, took local girls as wives, treated trachoma children and even invented writing for them and raised national poets and writers. Not a single people from the lands to which the Russians came disappeared or disappeared, but only increased their numbers. Perhaps, by Serebryakov's standards, this is not an example of enterprise or dignity. Perhaps he did not travel much outside of Moscow, to places where there were only “hellish cowsheds” around. But I went out, drove all over her mother up and down.

Alexey Serebryakov in the film "Leviathan" by Andrey Zvyagintsev.

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